It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
Baltasar Gracian

Display startling novelty--rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Baltasar Gracian